COLLEGE AND STATE 



effort should not be diverted from his reg- 

 ular work. The institute teacher, in all 

 the states, will then be chosen with the 

 same care that a college or experiment 

 station chooses the members of its staff; 

 his teaching will be as carefully watched 

 and supervised. Under these conditions 

 the institutes will endure. 



Teaching on farms 



I regard certain kinds of demonstration 

 work on farms as of the greatest teaching 

 value, if it is conducted by a good teacher. 

 Our educational methods have been greatly 

 improved by the introduction of the labo- 

 ratory, whereby a student is set at work 

 with a personal problem. The laboratory 

 work may be the actual observation and 

 study of a plant disease or an animal dis- 

 ease, of a rock, a soil, a physical phenom- 

 enon, the making f a school-garden, the 

 making of cheese or butter, the feeding of 

 a cow or horse, the incubating of eggs, 

 work in an orchard or greenhouse, the 

 planning of grounds or buildings, or what- 

 ever other actual work that it is worth 

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